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RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Ashkenazy)

Vladimir Ashkenazy has always conducted Rachmaninov’s most extended symphony with conviction, making it feel not one bar too long. Indeed,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2018

PALUMBO Three Concertos

If you want to read a glowing review of at least one work on this disc, you can do so...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2018

MOZART Piano Concerto No 21 (Yeol Eum Son)

The South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son (b1986) is already something of a veteran, having performed with the New York...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Vänskä)

The distinction between objectivity and subjectivity is crucial in Mahler and it doesn’t take long to establish that Vänskä’s bias...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Gimeno)

Setting this new studio recording of Mahler’s teenage piano quartet movement, as elaborated by Colin Matthews, against a more congested...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Chailly)

At least on record, the Leipzig Gewandhaus does not have much of a Mahler tradition – Masur and Neumann briskly...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

DEBUSSY La Mer. Images (Krivine)

Emmanuel Krivine’s new La mer with the Orchestre National de France focuses on the much-discussed question of Debussy’s decision, on...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2018

CZERNY Piano Concerto

The third release in Naxos’s survey of Carl Czerny’s works for piano and orchestra offers two recorded premieres, both dating...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Giulini)

Despite their interest in Bruckner’s output being quite selective, both Kurt Sanderling and Carlo Maria Giulini made a number of...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2018

BERNSTEIN On the Waterfront. West Side Story dances

A compendium of popular and streetwise Lenny for Bernstein 100 – and the virtuoso trombonist in Christian Lindberg surely gives...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018

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